He was president from 1961-1963 until he was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
Who was John F. Kennedy?
100
She refused to give up her bus seat to make room for white passengers
Who is Rosa Parks?
100
The name of the military in North Vietnam
What is the Vietcong?
100
The new communist leader in Cuba
Who is Fidel Castro?
100
The first winners of the Super Bowl
Who are the Green Bay Packers?
200
The only president to fight in the World Wars
Who is Eisenhower?
200
A very effective form of protest during the Civil Rights Movement that includes sit-ins, boycotts, and marches.
What are nonviolent protests?
200
Eisenhower's belief that if Vietnam fell to communism, it would spread to the rest of Asia
What is the domino theory?
200
The amount of days the Cuban Missile Crisis lasted
What is 13?
200
The first man to step foot on the moon
Who is Neil Armstrong?
300
The 1968 Democratic National Convention was held in this city. Police had to break up the riot that occurred outside the convention doors.
What is Chicago?
300
He was a black leader who encouraged protesters to get guns and fight back
Who is Malcolm X?
300
The largest communist attack on South Vietnam. Raised doubts in the U.S. if we were actually winning the war
What is the Tet Offensive?
300
Khrushchev ordered this to be built to prevent East Germans from fleeing to West Germany
What is the Berlin Wall?
300
This "fab four" first came to the U.S. in 1964
Who are the Beatles?
400
LBJ's domestic policy
What is "The Great Society"?
400
A protest put on by MLK; he believed most African Americans could not achieve equality because they were poor
What is the Poor People's Campaign?
400
The U.S. killed between 400-500 unarmed civilians in a village in South Vietnam while searching for the Vietcong. It was kept a secret.
What is the My Lai Massacre?
400
This famous boxer was removed of his boxing title after refusing to join the draft
Who is Mohammad Ali?
400
A person who rejected established institutions and values and sought spontaneity
What is a hippie?
500
The person who said “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."
Who is JFK?
500
The group responsible for the death of 3 civil rights protesters, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney who went missing in Mississippi while working on a civil rights project
Who are the KKK?
500
The amount of soldiers who had rotated through Vietnam
What is 1 million?
500
The name of the group JFK establishes to encourage people to volunteer in third world countries